The 2nd “Bai Bang Paper Cup” Cross Country Tournament

Vietnam Paper Corporation collaborated with the Department of Culture, Sports, and Tourism on November 10 to conduct the second Phu Tho Provincial “Bai Bang Paper Cup” Cross Country Tournament 2023 at Van Lang Park in Viet Tri City.

Delegates presented souvenir flags to participating units

Attending were: Mr. Vi Manh Hung - Member of the Provincial Party Standing Committee, Head of the Provincial Party Committee’s Propaganda Department; leaders of the Department of Culture, Sports and Tourism and other units.

The Phu Tho Provincial “Bai Bang Paper Cup” Cross Country Tournament 2023 featured 208 athletes from 13 districts, towns, and cities, as well as 10 units from the province’s Departments, branches, Colleges, and Universities.

Athletes competed in 6 events including: Women’s 1km movement; young women 2km distance; main women 3km distance; male movement 2km; Young men 3km distance and main men 5km distance.

After a morning of competition, the results for the Movement Award, Tran Huong Giang, Vietnam Paper Corporation won the first prize in the Women’s movement category; Ho Manh Tien, Vietnam Paper Corporation won the first prize in the Men’s movement category.

For the High Achievement Award, in the Young Women category, the First Prize belonged to Nguyen Thi Ngan Thuong, Lam Thao district. For the Young Men’s content, the First Prize belonged to Nguyen Trung Kien, Phu Ninh district

For the Main Female category, the First Prize belonged to Chu Thi Hai Yen, Provincial Public security; Tran Hong Quan, Tam Nong district won the first prize in the Main Male category.

Lam Thao district team continued to maintain the title of First place in the entire delegation, Second prize was Viet Tri City.

For the Young Women’s Team content, the First, Second, and Third prizes belonged to Lam Thao, Phu Ninh, and Thanh Son districts respectively. For the young men’s team, the prizes were for Phu Ninh district, Viet Tri city and Thanh Thuy respectively.

For the main female team content, Viet Tri City won the first prize; Second and third prizes went to Lam Thao district and Phu Tho Medical College, respectively.

For the Men’s Main Team content, Lam Thao district won the first prize; The Provincial Public security won the Second prize and the Third prize went to Viet Tri City.

In response to the campaign “All people exercise their bodies following the example of the great Uncle Ho” and “Be healthy to establish a career and preserve the country,” the cross-country tournament was organized and attracted a large number of people from all walks of life to participate in physical training and sports. This was also an occasion for athlete delegations to connect and exchange professional experiences in order to support the rising sports movement in general, and cross country sport in particular, in the province.

Thanh Tra - Ngoc Tung